Avengers: Endgame Leaked Online in China

4/26/2019 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Marvel’s latest and perhaps the most anticipated movie ever to be released Avengers: End Game has become an object of controversy lately as hackers and <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime">cybercriminals</a> are trying their best to benefit from the movie’s widespread, intense hype.<br />
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Last week, Marvel fans were requested to not use social media after a video made via mobile phone containing movie spoilers was posted online. Now that the movie has been released in China and just a day is left in its US release, reports are rife that a camera version of the movie has been uploaded on various torrent platforms and piracy sites.<br />
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TorrentFreak reveals that copy of Avengers: End Game has been recorded from a cinema in China and initially it exclusively appeared on Chinese torrent sites. It is interesting because the movie’s sponsors and producers chose to release it in China first and it is yet to be released in the US.<br />
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Reportedly, this decision was taken to address the issue of piracy in the region. The movie has so far raked in $90 million in sales, that’s an impressive start for sure but the inevitable has happened as someone was able to record the movie in the cinema and upload it online.<br />
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According to the analysis from <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/avengers-endgame-leaks-online-in-china-begins-to-spread-190424/">TorrentFreak</a>, their system notified about the appearance of a 1.2 GB cammed version of Avengers: End Game between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm China local time, that’s merely a few hours after the movie was released in China.<br />
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As soon as the movie was released online, dozens of users located in <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Chinese%20Hackers">China</a> started sharing it on torrent sites. Then came the 2 GB version of the movie and new copies are also emerging at regular intervals. The initial versions were basically different variants of the first torrent shared on Thunder torrent site; it became evident because all the new variants had the same client code starting from 7.10.35.XXX.<br />
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The good news is that the pirated version circulating on torrent sites is of pretty bad quality as the movie continuously flickers, is semi-rotated and there are watermarks of a gambling site visible throughout. TorrentFreak also noted that the pirated version has made it to piracy sites in the UK as well.<br />
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It is worth mentioning that the initial version of the movie’s copy was dubbed in Chinese but later another version with English audio and Chinese subtitles was released online. Moreover, an improved version of the movie has also been released that has been sponsored by a <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers">russian</a> betting company 1XBet.<br />
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Avengers: End Game is touted as the final and conclusive chapter of the franchise. So far 22 films have been released since 2008 under the Marvel Cinematic Universe banner. The makers have tried their best to keep the movie’s storyline a secret, so much so that even the journalists weren’t allowed to watch the movie prior to interviewing its star cast. </div>

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Voting Machine firewall details and passwords leaked online

4/06/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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A sysadmin at a number one mechanical device vendor denote a firewall configuration file, as well as passwords, into a public Cisco support forum in 2011, gap the corporate up to attainable attack.<br />
The config files expose a wealth of knowledge helpful to Associate in Nursing wrongdoer, as well as the name, hostname, and ASA version range. whereas <b>there's no proof that the mechanical device vendor was compromised, this accidental discharge of knowledge is "juicy intelligence,"</b> Dan Tentler, founder and corporate executive of satellite cluster, Associate in Nursing attack simulation security company, tells.<br />
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"If you have got a crack team of housebreaker varieties and they are all attending to burgled a building, this firewall configuration file is that the equivalent of finding the ground set up of the building they're reaching to burgled," Tentler says.<br />
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Compromising the c<b>omputer code offer chain of a mechanical device vendor would be a years-long endeavor, requiring careful designing and long-run persistence within the company's network.</b> It remains unclear if this "floor plan" was ever employed by Associate in Nursing wrongdoer because the mechanical device vendor has not answered that question with rhetorical certainty.<br />
One of the ASA devices seems to be a firewall on the company's development and testing network. Associate in Nursing wrongdoer World Health Organization used this intelligence to compromise the mechanical device vendor's network may have used works backdoors ("remote access software") to hack vote machines. they might have deep-seated refined microcode backdoors or engaged in spear phishing attacks against native election officers.<br />
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A nation-state wrongdoer may even have derived the mechanical device ASCII text file and used it to seem for security flaws. "The mechanical device vendors...are actually on the microwave radar of powerful attackers, as well as nation-state adversaries," Alex Halderman, a prof of computing at the University of Michigan, Associate in Nursing a knowledgeable of mechanical device security, tells. "The networks they're mistreatment for developing, testing, and debugging election system computer code area unit probably to be probed by attackers World Health Organization would wish to weaken the protection of our elections."<br />
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"If you'll get into one in every of these vendors," he adds, <b>"take the ASCII text file to the vote machines, that is of huge advantage to somebody UN agency needs to attack them."</b><br />
In the forum postings, that area unit still public at the time of this writing, the mechanical device merchandiser worker asked for facilitate configuring a Cisco ASA 5505 — a firewall appliance — and includes sensitive details regarding the company's internal network layout, likewise as passwords (likely the default passwords), writing, "Here is my running config."<br />
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In one forum post, the worker asks for help:<br />
I am making an attempt to line up a DMZ with an interior VLAN to transfer SFTP (SSH) firmly. I am unable to get the within the computer to attach to the SFTP (SSH) server. I actually have bought and activated the safety upgrade My DMZ server. My computer making an attempt to travel from the within to the DMZ.<br />
The employee continues to provoke facilitate, writing in another forum post, "I would really like to trammel the safety on my Firewall. am I able to take away my ‘any any’ statements in my access lists? Here's my config."<br />
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It's doable, of course, that the sysadmin modified the passwords before posting to the <b>Cisco support forum, though the language used ("Here is my running config") suggests otherwise.</b> it is also doable the passwords were modified afterward.<br />
Even if the passwords were ne'er valid, this firewall config offers associate aggressor valuable intelligence. "This info is incredibly helpful for associate aggressor that’s targeting this organization with a political goal in mind," Tentler says. "If Russia found this and was deciding to focus on this organization, this can be gold."<br />
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We found what we have a tendency to believe to be the employee’s LinkedIn profile, that shows the worker now not works for the corporate. Neither the mechanical device merchandiser nor the previous worker competent our press inquiries.<br />
"I hope that vendor has enforced immensely higher security coaching since 2011 so as to avoid additional security leaks of this nature," Halderman says, "but nothing that I actually have seen would lead Maine to<b> believe their security has improved to the extent necessary to stave off nation-state adversaries</b>."<br />
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MongoDB Hacked in 13 seconds demanding for ransom

3/23/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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The hackers have been exploiting unprotected MongoDB for the last couple of years, based servers to steal data and hold the exposed databases for ransom. In order to raise awareness, <b>hackers leaked 36 million records of internal data collected from several vulnerable servers.</b><br />
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The IT security researchers from German firm Kromtech conducted an experiment in which they purposely left a MongoDB database exposed to the public and kept an eye on the incoming connections, to determine and measure the depth of attacks against MongoDB,.<br />
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The matter seriousness can be understood by the fact that in July of 2015 John Matherly of Shodan, <b>the world’s first search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT devices) revealed that there are over 30,000 unprotected MongoDB databases exposed for public access</b>.<br />
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<b>Honeypot</b>: Which is a security mechanism set to detect and counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.<br />
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The honeypot database contained 30GB of fake data. Little did they know, it took only three hours for hackers to identify the database before wiping out its data in just 13 seconds and leaving a ransom note demanding 0.2 Bitcoin according to Kromtech’s blog post.<br />
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Here it is noteworthy that in January 2017, hackers held several MongoDB databases for ransom and demanded 0.2 Bitcoin in return. It is unclear if the hackers who took over the honeypot database are part of the same group. However, according to Kromtech’s Chief Communication Officer Bob Diachenko, the attack on their database has been traced back to China.<br />
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The researchers are certain that only an automated script can complete such task within 13 seconds.<br />
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“The attacker connects to our database first, then drops the databases to delete them, drops the Journals to erase their tracks, creates a database called Warning with Readme collection and the Solution Record, then drops the Journals again to cover their tracks. This was all completed in just thirteen seconds, leading to the conclusion that this was the work of an automated script,” noted Kromtech researchers.<br />
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<b>The <a href="https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-mongodb-to-be-compromised">researchers </a>are advising </b>users to secure their database since exposed MongoDB servers are still at risk. <b>Another important aspect</b> of <b>ransom attacks against MongoDB is that hackers are simply deleting the database therefore even if victim pays them off, their data will never be returned.</b> Therefore, keep a back up of your data and never pay ransom in such cases.</div>

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Data Breach at Orbitz exposed 880,000 credit cards

3/21/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Travel website Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia Inc. disclosed Tuesday a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/databreach">security breach</a> that may have exposed data for thousands of customers, including information on 8,80,000 <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Credit%20Card">credit cards</a>.<br />
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The Expedia-owned travel website operator said the breach affected an older website and the platform of an unnamed business partner. The information attackers “likely accessed” included people’s names, dates of birth, email addresses, street addresses, and genders, Orbitz said.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Data%20Leak">data leak</a>, which took place between Oct. and Dec. and involved records dating between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 22, 2017, did not affect its current website, <a href="http://orbitz.com/">Orbitz.com</a>, nor did it involve any Social Security numbers, Orbitz said. The company said it “has not found any evidence” that other customer information was affected, like travel itineraries or passports.<br />
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Orbitz advised customers who used its services during the prescribed time period to check their credit and debit card billings statements and to contact their banks if they see any fraudulent charges.<br />
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Orbitz said it was in the process of notifying potential victims and that it would offer them a year of free credit monitoring services. Customers with questions can visit <a href="http://orbitz.allclearid.com/">orbitz.allclearid.com</a> for more information, the company said.<br />
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“We took immediate steps to investigate the incident and enhance security and monitoring of the affected platform,” Orbitz said.<br />
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Expedia’s share price fell almost 2% during the day.</div>

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50 Million Facebook Accounts Hijacked to help Trump Win

3/18/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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50 million Facebook accounts, most of them in the United States, had their data harvested in 2014 by a company looking for ways to target people with political messages. Facebook has denied this was a data breach.<br />
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A whistleblower named Christopher Wylie, who used to work at a company called Cambridge Analytica, gave a dossier of evidence including “emails, invoices, contracts and bank transfers” told to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election">Observer</a>.<br />
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Cambridge Analytica data breach Whistleblower Christopher Wylie says, "We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of profiles. And built models to exploit that and target their inner demons."</blockquote>
A company called Global Science Research (GSR) run by Cambridge University academic Aleksandr Kogan created an app called <b>thisisyourdigitallife </b>– a personality test people can fill out online. He worked with Cambridge Analytica which was looking for ways to influence what people think about politics. A contract was signed between GSR and a Cambridge Analytica affiliate called SCL Elections Ltd. When people filled out the personality test, they gave permission for the app to collect their Facebook data “for academic use”. However, the app also collected the data of all of the user’s Facebook friends, quickly inflating the number of people affected to the tens of millions.<br />
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The data from 50 million Facebook profiles were looked at against the electoral register, and then used to build an algorithm which analyses people’s personality traits in relation to their voting behaviour. This could then be used to find potential swing voters and create messages tailored to influence them politically. <br />
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Cambridge Analytica is being investigated by the Electoral Commission for its possible role in the EU referendum and by the Information Comissioner’s Office over using data analytics for political purposes. The firm is also being investigated in the United States by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director who is investigating possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s election campaign. Wylie has also passed on his dossier of evidence to the National Crime Agency’s <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime">cybercrime </a>unit and the Information Commissioner’s Office. <br />
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On Friday, just before the story broke, Facebook announced it was suspending Cambridge Analytica and GSR’s Aleksandr Kogan from Facebook while it carries out an investigation into “misuse of data”. It has also suspended whistleblower Christopher Wylie from using Facebook. Facebook denies this was a data breach, as GSR got the data “in a legitimate way” but it broke Facebook rules by passing the data on to third parties. Facebook also claims it removed the app in 2015 and written proof that all data had been destroyed. <br />
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Cambridge Analytica’s vice president at the time was Steve Bannon, who was also head of the right-wing website Breitbart and was running Donald Trump’s campaign to become US President. Bannon later became President Trump’s chief of staff, but was fired last year. Cambridge Analytica was funded by Robert Mercer, a hedge fund billionaire and Trump’s biggest campaign donor. GSR’s Aleksandr Kogan is also an associate professor at St Petersburg State University in Russia and has received grants from the Russian government to research Facebook users’ emotional states. <br />
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Cambridge Analytica told the Observer its contract with GSR said Kogan must seek “informed consent” for data collection. It’s affiliate SCL Elections worked with Facebook to make sure no terms had been “knowingly breached” and was given a signed statement that all data had been deleted. Cambridge Analytica also claims none of the data was used in the 2016 US presidential election.<br />
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50 Million Facebook Accounts Hijacked to help Trump Win

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4000 Government Websites Hacked in less than 4 Hours to Mine Cryptocurrency

3/03/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Over four thousand high profile government websites have been compromised by <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Dark%20Web" target="_blank">dark web</a> hackers across the globe, mining virtual currency secretly, and particularly Monero.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Monero" target="_blank">Monero </a>has become one of the popular cryptocurrency recently especially on the ‘<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Dark%20Web" target="_blank">dark web</a>’– a section of the internet that can only be accessed using a special browser which is capable of anonymizing your browsing location as well as identity. Dark web criminals are taking advantage of this anonymity by trading illegal commodities, substances and services using virtual currencies.<br />
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<b>4,275 websites including those in the U.K., the U.S., Ireland, Australian and Canada with government websites with hundreds of thousands of visitors were hacked in less than a period of four hours</b> and unwittingly mined for <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cryptocurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency </a>exploiting a security breach. Some of the compromised websites include the <b>United States courts online portal</b>, the <b>United States Information Commissioner Office</b>; the <b>National Health Service</b> in the <b>United Kingdom</b> and the <b>Victorian Parliament </b>website in <b>Australia</b>. The attack by a cryptojacking code hit common websites which had the text-to-speech accessibility script Browsealoud for the visually impaired from Texthelp company.<br />
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Recently, Monero has grown in popularity with a market capitalization of $4 billion. Its privacy feature has contributed to its momentum on the dark web making it harder to track compared to bitcoin.<br />
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The prices of virtual currency in the market skyrocketed recently and as a scheme that has drawn the attention of criminals. <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime" target="_blank">Cybercrimes </a>increased especially on cryptocurrency as criminals tried to cash in on the skyrocketing crypto prices. The cybercrime industry is recently believed to be overtaking the illegal drug trafficking industry in terms of revenue and hence attracting criminals.<br />
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The hacking process involved insertion of a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">malicious </a>code that takes over a portion of a victim’s computer and central processing. Therefore the hacker has the ability of opening a website using a browser in order to mine virtual currency.<br />
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The process of mining digital coins requiring less processing power such as Monero is much easier compared to mining bitcoin from websites as it requires powerful specialized computers and software, making Monero mining a better fit for saving on time and energy, making it a very attractive option to criminals.<br />
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The dark web hackers had an easier time as they did not compromise each of the 4,275 websites at once, but rather hacked a globally-used plugin named ‘<b>Browsealoud</b>’ which is capable of reading out text from websites for the blind.<br />
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After the Browsealoud code was hacked, <b>CoinHive’s Monero miner</b> was silently and secretly injected. Thereafter, any website using the Browsealoud plugin was automatically compromised.<br />
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However the cyber-attack was deemed successful as there were basic regulatory measures and requirements over accessibility of some of these government websites that have not been met.</div>

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GitHub under DDoS Attack

3/21/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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It’s pretty clear that <a href="https://github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub</a> is one of the favorite targets for <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/DDoS">distributed denial-of-service</a> (DDOS) attacks. The service is currently facing another attack wave. <br />
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“We are currently working to mitigate an incoming DDoS attack. We’ll provide additional information as it becomes available,” GitHub <a href="https://status.github.com/messages" target="_blank">wrote</a> just a few minutes ago.<br />
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The code repository hasn’t shared any additional details in the meantime and may not even do so if the attack isn’t much more serious than the regular DDOS attacks targeting it.<br />
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GitHub handles such situations so often that it has gotten so accustomed to mitigating them that access to the service is usually restored within about 20 minutes.<br />
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The service is armed with enough weapons to handle volumetric and complex attacks, so everything should be back to normal in no time.<br />
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Last week, they faced one of the biggest attacks in recent months and, as a result, GitHub started working on ways to improve its DDOS mitigating capabilities to make sure that even uncommon operations could be blocked quickly, so that users could get their service back.<br />
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On March 11, the attack was so wide that GitHub went down for 2 hours, a lot more than the regular 20 minutes that people are used to.<br />
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<strong>[UPDATE 1:]</strong> The efforts to reduce the number of legitimate users who are flagged as attack traffic continues.<br />
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<strong>[UPDATE 2:]</strong> GitHub is back to working order. </div>

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Personal info of 12 million KT customers Leaked

3/08/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Two men have been arrested in connection with the massive KT Corp. data breach that resulted in the theft of personal and financial information of some 12 million customers of the South Korean telecom giant.<br />
According to the <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/06/business/south-korea-telecoms-hackers" target="_blank">CNN</a>, one of the arrested men, a 29-year-old surnamed Kim, was a hacker who broke into the company's computer system with customized hacking software and extracted customer information such as names, resident registration numbers and bank account information.<br />
The initial breach apparently happened in February 2013, and he has been extracting the data ever since. He allegedly sold it to a 37-year-old man surnamed Park, a telemarketing business owner that used the information to credibly impersonate a KT Corp. employee in order to sell cell phones.<br />
Another man has been arrested but almost immediately released.<br />
Apparently, in the last year, they managed to earn themselves nearly $11 million through this scheme.<br />
KT is cooperating with the police as the investigation continues, and will be forced to set up a website its users can visit to check whether their information has been compromised, the Yonhap News Agency <a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2014/03/07/17/0501000000AEN20140307000900320F.html" target="_blank">reported</a>.<br />
The South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning is warning potentially affected users to be on the lookout for phishing emails impersonating the company and taking advantage of the situation to make them share more personal details.
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Bitcoin Bank Hacked, Theft of $6,20,000

3/04/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Flexcoin, famous for making <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Bitcoin" target="_blank">bitcoin</a> banking as easy as regular banking, is no more. The company shut its doors on Tuesday morning after hackers stole 896 bitcoins (nearly $620,000) from its vault on Sunday. And the most unsettling thing? That wasn't even the only bitcoin heist last weekend.<br />
To <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Flexcoin" target="_blank">Flexcoin's</a> credit, it wasn't completely cleaned out by hackers. Hackers did clean out Flexcoin's hot wallet, but an undisclosed number of bitcoins in cold storage were untouched. "Cold storage" simply means that the bitcoins were kept in computers <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage" target="_blank">not connected to the internet</a>, an extra level of security for which customers pay an extra 0.5 percent. Flexcoin will give those bitcoins back to customers. Those whose bitcoins were stolen are, well, they're shit out of luck because bitcoins aren't insured like good ol' greenbacks are in most banks.<br />
If this sounds like a familiar story, that's because it is. On Tuesday, another bitcoin firm called <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499580" target="_blank">Polonix</a> also admitted that hackers broke in and stole 12.5 percent of its reserves, though it plans on replenishing the lost 'coin itself. And who could forget the infamous implosion of Mt.Gox, the Japan-based bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy last week and announced that $424 million worth of cryptocurrency was lost and gone forever. Those just a couple of the major heists and boondoggles on a growing list of heists and boondoggles.<br />
But what do you expect. The burgeoning bitcoin industry is famously unstable and <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerable</a>. Sure, it's an exciting idea for the sake of liberty and anarchy and whatever! It's just not the safest way to store your money right now, is all.</div>

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